Luanda — The Angolan head of State, José Eduardo dos Santos, Thursday here analysed with the new secretary executive of Gulf of Guinea Commission (CGG), Miguel Trovoada, issues related to the functioning of the regional body.

Miguel Trovoada, former president of Sao Tome and Principe, who takes over the post as from next January, told journalists at the end of the audience, that José Eduardo dos Santos expressed "all the availability" to support the activities of the organism.

"It was an occasion to make with the President of the Republic a first discussion of what will be the performance in the post assigned to me during the II Summit of the organisation", he said.

José Eduardo dos Santos, the current president of the regional body, said during the organisation's last summit, held on 25 November that Angola will do everything so that the organisation plays more and more acting role in a geopolitics space, whose strategic

importance does not stop growing, in the current state of affairs of financial crises and slow-down of the world economy.

The Gulf of Guinea Commission was created in 1999, and it groups Angola, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Republic of Congo, Nigeria, Sao Tome and Principe, Gabon, Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea.